Still, I can't help feeling jaded with the NBA.

I understand where you're coming from. I just can't help the fact that any talk of assimilation makes my skin crawl. Being part of the American mainstream is one of the few times that I think the world should change to fit us.

It all comes back to the "zero-tolerance" policy; that's the fault of the politicians, not the educators. From what I understand, a lot of the teachers are against zero-tolerance policies because they see them doing more harm than good. However, once infractions happen, their hands are tied. The people who vote in…

But why do we have to assimilate? It almost sounds like we're thinking of ways to try to accommodate to other people's neurosis.

I went to school in the same district as Spring Valley. If they called in the Resource Officer, 9 times out of 10 you're getting arrested and going to jail. When that happens, that school is going to do everything in their power to keep you from coming back.

Schools here in Richland County are very big on "zero-tolerance".

I actually went to high school in the same district as the one where this incident took place (though I should mention my school was more "hood" so we had, imo, a more aggressive police presence than what you saw at Spring Valley). Still, I never saw anybody get manhandled like this when I was there. I can only hope…

I actually went to high school in the same district as the one where this incident took place (though I should mention my school was more "hood" so we had, imo, a more aggressive police presence than what you saw at Spring Valley).

That's a damn shame, because it's a genuinely gripping movie. The only time I've ever seen it broadcast on TV was BET back when I was around 13 or 14.

I know, but I can't help it. That movie is one of the most genuinely fun viewing experiences I've ever had.

She's not my usual type. On the other hand, she's got the whole "adult Wednesday Addams" thing going on, so I could work with that.

The thing with Blaxploitation films is that many of them don't quite fit the "exploitation" tag; at least in my opinion. There's a very obvious difference between films such as The Black Gestapo, The Candy Tangerine Man, and Blackenstein and films like Across 110th Street, Shaft, The Mack or Buck and the Preacher.

Uh, obviously. I meant besides that. #pervertlife.

What does it say about me that my favorite horror movie since 2000 is Sorority Row?

My big problem with Scott Lang's whole, "stay away from my daughter in order to protect her" isn't the violation of privacy thing. It's that the plan is completely pointless. Scott doesn't have a secret identity; people know he's Ant-Man. Plus, his daughter used to be a very public member of the Young Avengers.

The current run of Ant-Man is one of my favorite reads right now. It's the first Ant-Man comic I'd ever read; prior to that, I never cared about the character, no matter who was in the suit. My big fear is that with Secret Wars swooping in and killing the momentum of a lot of books, combined with the launch of a lot…

The Knick gets a big gold star for having the first Major Taylor reference I've ever seen on TV.

I was really hoping they wouldn't do it, but the writers turned me against Tommy this episode. He's one of the few characters on here I actually liked (Quentin was the other one…yeah) but I really cannot stand the "hero angsts over saving the world" trope. I get that that's a lot of pressure to dump on somebody, but…

The greatest White savior is C. Thomas Howell.

Where I lived, there was only one place in town that I knew of to get anything airbrushed. They would always have items with these nice portraits hanging up on the storefront, so the problem wasn't that they didn't have skilled artists. The issue was that they would charge, like, $10 a letter for words.